More People in Heaven Than in Hell

[ScottEmerson]

Originally posted by Ken Hamilton:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by ScottEmerson:
And where the Scripture is silent, should we not also be silent?

Then you don't agree with Ray when he states that only a minority of people will be saved?

Ken
A Spurgeonite</font>[/QUOTE]If anything, I would lean towards his interpretation, since "few are chosen" to the comparative "many." This is the only comparison I can find about numbers of the godly and ungodly.

However, one passage doesn't push me 100% in that direction. I would prefer to remain neutral now that I've thought about it. (I still maintain that the number is up to humans choosing God, not a foreordained number!)

SEC

 

[KenH]

Originally posted by ScottEmerson:
I would prefer to remain neutral

Are you Swiss?

Ken

 

[tyndale1946]

Scott Emerson said:

I still maintain that the number is up to humans choosing God, not a foreordained number!

... but Scott what are you going to do with this scripture?

Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified... Still all of God!... Brother Glen

 

[ScottEmerson]

Originally posted by tyndale1946:
...but Scott what are you going to do with this scripture?

Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified... Still all of God!... Brother Glen

[/QB]

Look at the whom as a group - just as the whom in the OT referred to the nation of Israel, not the specific individuals. I believe that Romans 9-11 back me up on that, reading all three chapters as one continuous argument.

 

[Sovereign Grace]

I don't know how many are going to be in heaven, and I don't know how many are going to be in hell. All I know is that Jesus was satisfied at Calvary, and is going to be satisfied throughout all eternity! The pleasure of the Lord prospered in His hand, and it pleased God to bruise our Lord Jesus Christ! (Isa. 53:10, 11) Thank God for mercy!

 

[Ray Berrian]

The Bible says that 'Hell hath enlarged itself;' it does not say 'Heaven enlarged itself.' Wisdom from the Word.

 

[Dualhunter]

Originally posted by Ray Berrian:
The Bible says that 'Hell hath enlarged itself;' it does not say 'Heaven enlarged itself.' Wisdom from the Word.

Heaven is already big enough for God though so it doesn't need to be enlarged.

 

[Ray Berrian]

Dualhunter,

I thought we were taught that God is everywhere; omnipresent, and not just in Heaven.

 

[Dualhunter]

Originally posted by Ray Berrian:
Dualhunter,

I thought we were taught that God is everywhere; omnipresent, and not just in Heaven.

Notice the smiley in my previous post. The possibility is not ruled out though even if it isn't certain either.

 

[Pete Richert]

Okay, no scripture here, but . . .

I have read some scientific research (second hand out of Time that is) that so many things can and do go wrong during the first couple of days of conception that most sperm and egg combos don't even make it to attach themselves to the wall. The estimate of the researchers at hand was that only one in ten concienved zygotts (I don't know the exact term) actually make it into full term labor. This "children" are never even known about since it happens it just a couple of hours and the women are completely unware. Ero

if all sperm and egg combos constitiute a baby (as argued on "Is abortion murder" above) and all babies go to heaven (as accepted by NEARLY all of Christiandom) then there should be at LEAST ten times as many in heaven then in hell. Let's be more conservative and say it is actually one in two that continue into full time. Then still, there is at least MORE in heaven then in hell, one half plus those miscarried and aborted plus those who died very young plus those who come to trust in Jesus vs those who grow up but don't trust in Jesus.

Indeed, its going to be crowded!

 

[Dualhunter]

Originally posted by Pete Richert:
Indeed, its going to be crowded!

Nah, God in His omniscience made heaven big enough to fit everybody.